story: CHAPTER VIII 
  
  
  
  Five minutes after Paula had left him, punctual to the second, the four telegrams disposed of, Dick was getting into a ranch motor car, along with Thayer, the Idaho buyer, and Naismith, the special correspondent for the _Breeders' Gazette_. Wardman, the sheep manager, joined them at the corrals where several thousand young Shropshire rams had been assembled for inspection. 
  
  There was little need for conversation. Thayer was distinctly disappointed in this, for he felt that the purchase of ten carloads of such expensive creatures was momentous enough to merit much conversation. 
  
  "They speak for themselves," Dick had assured him, and turned aside to give data to Naismith for his impending article on Shropshires in California and the Northwest. 
  
  "I wouldn't advise you to bother to select them," Dick told Thayer ten minutes later. "The average is all top. You could spend a week picking your ten carloads and have no higher grade than if you had taken the first to hand." 
  
  This cool assumption that the sale was already consummated so perturbed Thayer, that, along with the sure knowledge that he had never seen so high a quality of rams, he was nettled into changing his order to twenty carloads. 
  
  As he told Naismith, after they had regained the Big House and as they chalked their cues to finish the interrupted game: 
  
  "It's my first visit to Forrest's. He's a wizard. I've been buying in the East and importing. But those Shropshires won my judgment. You noticed I doubled my order. Those Idaho buyers will be wild for them. I only had buying orders straight for six carloads, and contingent on my judgment for two carloads more; but if every buyer doesn't double his order, straight and contingent, when he sees them rams, and if there isn't a stampede for what's left, I don't know sheep. They're the goods. If they don't jump up the sheep game of Idaho ... well, then Forrest's no breeder and I'm no buyer, that's all." 
questions: how many telegrams wwere disposed of?
questions: how long had Paula been gone before he left too.
questions: what type of car?
questions: Along with who?
questions: how was he described?
questions: who else was there?
questions: what did he do?
questions: who did they meet up with?
questions: and he was a what?
questions: where did he meet them?
questions: what was there also?
questions: there for?
questions: was the group chatty?
questions: who didn't like that?
questions: why:?
questions: who disagreed?
questions: who speak for themselves?
questions: what is Nairsmith's article on?
questions: how many carloads did Thayer buy>?
questions: did he then increase it?
questions: to ?
answers: four
answers: four
answers: Five minutes
answers: Five minutes 
answers: a ranch motor car
answers: into a ranch motor car
answers: Thayer
answers: Thayer
answers: "the Idaho buyer"
answers: the Idaho buye
answers: Naismith
answers: Naismith
answers: correspondent for the Breeders' Gazette
answers:  correspondent for the _Breeders' Gazette_.
answers: Wardman
answers: Wardman
answers: sheep manager
answers: sheep manager,
answers: at the corrals
answers:  joined them at the corrals 
answers: several thousand young Shropshire rams
answers: several thousand young Shropshire rams
answers: inspection
answers:  had been assembled for inspection. 
answers: No
answers: There was little need for conversation
answers: Thayer
answers: Thayer was distinctly disappointed in this, 
answers: he felt that the purchase of such expensive creatures was momentous enough to merit much conversation.
answers: he felt that the purchase of ten carloads of such expensive creatures was momentous enough to merit much conversation. 
answers: Dick
answers:  Dick
answers: the expensive creatures
answers:  creatures
answers: Shropshires in California and the Northwest
answers: Shropshires in California and the Northwest. 
answers: ten
answers: ten
answers: Yes
answers: he was nettled into changing his order to twenty carloads. 
  
answers: twenty
answers: twenty